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Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I wrote a short piece on the Book of Faeces this morning, that was in a Closed Group, so most of you won’t have have…
How Did We Come To This?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I was having a conversation this morning, (Monday) on Twatter, with somebody who appears to be a serving officer. I have no intention of identifying…
The Changing Shape of The Police Service Part II
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes 18 months ago, spurred on by an article by Ian Wiggett that highlighted record numbers of Voluntary Resignations, I wrote The Ever-Thinning Blue Line, and…
How Safe Do You Feel?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes It all started with a Tweet. Someone posted a chart of how violent crime had spiralled under the Tories. How Safe Do You Feel? Well,…
Policing Experience – Is There Another Crisis Waiting To Happen?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes We’ve heard plenty about #CrisisInPolicing and I’m not going to convince you that there isn’t one. I have said before that there is, caused directly…
The Answer To Everything Is NOT 42
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes Like many others of a certain age I grew up believing that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is…
Scandalous Reduction in Police Officer Numbers
Read Whole PostReading Time: < 1 minute I am thankful to my friend @ConstableChaos for bringing this to my attention Staffordshire Police have seen a reduction in officers from 2,400 to 1,600…
Who Co-Ordinates The Co-Ordinators?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes Mustn’t swear, honestly, but yesterday provided me with a true WTF moment. Following the recent visit of that nice Mr Trump to the UK, it…
The State of Policing 2018
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes Fortuitously there has just been a release of Police Manpower (sorry, I still call it that, no offence intended) and the latest Crime Data for…
We Were NOT Crying Wolf Prime Minister
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I’m sure you can all remember back in 2015 when the then Home Secretary told the Police Federation to “stop crying wolf”. Well, We Were…
